VIDEO Gerry Thornley previews the European Champions Cup

No less than having the offices in Dublin, there’s little doubt that five Irish Heineken Cup wins in a seven-year period (2006 to 2012) did not go down well in the upper echelons of England and French club rugby, and one of the spin-offs of the Anglo-French European coup was to assert their dual pre-eminence. Might is right and all that…………….. see more at :- http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/gerry-thornley-previews-the-european-champions-cup-1.1964939

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It could well be that the redesigned European Champions Cup will be seen to achieve that purpose as well, but if so this will be largely coincidental. Such Irish dominance could never last forever, all the more so with the greater wealth in privately backed English and French clubs……… see more at :- http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/gerry-thornley-previews-the-european-champions-cup-1.1964939